Excerpt: Yet while The Internet’s Own Boy sensitively and powerfully depicts the inherent tragedy of Swartz’s story, it still feels like a distracted effort. It’s the documentary equivalent of a series of hyperlinks.

Excerpt: In writer-director Brian Knappenberger’s absorbing and conscious-minded documentary The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz we examine the moving motivations of an actively eager and precocious mastermind.